Ilich Notes
1. Ivan took an attitude of dignified aloofness after he took a job.
2. Official life vs family life.                                                                          X
3. Looses job.
4. Finds another job, new house - happy. Life ran easily, pleasantly, decorously.
5. Hurts himself on ladder.
6. Pleasures connected with work - pleasures of ambition. Social pleasures - pleasures of vanity.
7. Problems caused by pain: quarrels with wife, decorum gone.
8. All the doctors: like at Ivan's job. Is case serious or not? Doctors not interested. Doctors indifferent.
9. Wife does not want to hear about it.
10.  What torments Ivan most of all is that no one understood his pain.
11. He was an obstacle, annoyance to his wife. Everyone at work interested in getting his position. No one has pity for him.
12. His life poisoned and was poisoning the lives of others.
13. Recognition of approaching death.
14. Syllogism: Caius is a man, man is mortal, therefore Caius is mortal. Ivan does not think this applies to him.
15. Stupid he should loose his life over a curtain.
16. Gerasim. Ivan felt better when Gerasim held his legs. Ivan longed to be pitied, patted and comforted.
17. Mental suffering worse than physical.